While the IHeartComix crew may be most renowned for their high quality electro disco house, this month they posted one of the best recent heavy bass mixes around on their blog. Curated by Kanji Kinetic for No Love Lost Records‘ mixtape project, this joint is well worth dealing with a zSHARE file download. It’s one hour of pure dance goodness.

Be forewarned, however, ‘cuz this ish is not for the faint of heart. It’s a caffeine-pill-washed-down-with-Redbull, insert-illicit-drug-here fueled journey. Dude hits Speed Racer tempos for most of the entire hour.

He hits enough of the appropriate notes (selection-wise, if not compositionally) to satisfy the majority of heavy bass fans. No specific genre could claim this mix. But it’s confined to UK style wobbly, electronic bass. While other forms of bass infused sounds exist, this mix is havin’ none of that.

For a British bass dweller, Kanji has got a healthy interest in the scene here in the States. Nearly a third of the names in this remix saturated, 23 cut mixtape hail from the East Coast. Mostly, this role is filled by Trouble & Bass, the bassline kings of New York, and dubstep overlord Starkey, who also reps T&B, but calls Philly home. Since NLLR is based in Brooklyn, this may come as no big surprise.

On a related note, Franki Chan, founder of IHeartComix, dropped a mix for NLLR as well. It’s also worth your expensive time.

Before we even get into this joint, Culture System would just like to apologize for posting a video with dancing iTunes characters and cats with monitors on… That said, today we present to you Wittyboy on production and the Doctor on the mic.

Wittyboy’s bassline mix of Doctor’s "Calm Down," is more than a dance mix - it can stand alone from the original, which was produced by the larger than life Cotti.

His beats shuffle through a variety of sounds and rhtyms, which keeps it interesting. Granted he stays within the comfortable confines of the bassline genre with a standard percussion and basic wonky bass. But it’s top of the game in this respect. And he adds a nice flute which really stands out. One could even make the argument that the flute makes the song remorseful - a fitting touch considering the lyrics - but that would break down once the wobbles kick in.

Doctor comes correct himself, with a smooth delivery and voice, consistent subject matter and a point to be made which he drives home with dense rhymes and numerous similes. It might even be called positive, which is what Cotti says he’s trying to encourage.

Given the quality of the rhymes, it was a good move on Wittyboy’s part to leave them untouched. Unfortunately, he leaves the hook to itself as well, which is dumb repetitive. And he drowns out the lyrics a bit, so if you want to understand them, you might want to listen to the original first. But you’ll be sure to come back to this version.

CORRUPTED BASS MIX

I made this over a month ago, but due to reasons I won’t mention, I did nothing with it. Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

"Wearing My Rolex" (Pirate Soundsystem Bassline RMX), Wiley, Wearing My Rolex (Enhanced), Asylum

"Mad Again" (Boy 8-Bit RMX), South Rakkas Crew, Mad Decent

"Wide Awake,"  Equalizers, Revenge/Wide Awake, Pure Filth

"Enjoy," Baracoot

"Penultimate Persian," Clark, Turning Dragons, Warp

"Smoke and Mirrors," JDSY, Adage of Known. Ghostly

"Traffickers," The Reflecting Skin, Ghostly Swim, Ghostly

"Monday" (Glitch Mob RMX), Nalepa, Flatlands Remix CD, Native State

"Done with the Zine," Pacheko, Flatlands, Murder Channel Compilation, Murder Channel